Infrastructure spending not always good

Over the past two centuries, federal, state and municipal governments across the U.S. have launched wave after wave of infrastructure projects. They built canals to move freight in the 1830s and 1840s. Governments subsidized railroads in the 19th century. They created local sewage and water systems in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and

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